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Recent Changes

New updates to our surnames!

Benedict

Elwyn Ellsworth Benedict 1930-
Elwyn Benedict is the author of the Genealogy of the Benedicts in America, Volume II which along with Volume I, is the bible for Benedict researchers. Living in Kirksville, NY with his wife Esther, Elwyn continues supporting other Benedicts with their quest for ancestors.

Smedley was our founding father for the Ontario branch of Benedicts. The son of a Revolutionary soldier; he removed with family from Vermont to settle in the Lennox & Addington county. Raising ten children, he and Catherine Dafoe passed away in Grey county in the late 1800's.

Roy Gifford Benedict: 1896-1966
Roy Benedict married Alice Gertrude MacLean in 1920 and he was Deputy Sherriff of Grey county.

Born in Germany as Jacob Bauchmann of Strausburg, he lands in Nova Scotia and adoptes the surname of Benedict. Married to Mary Shanks, they are the original family of several lines of Benedict from that area.